Wednesday, August 26, 2009

I Have a Place

I have a place
With dark secret pathways
hours pass by
For my own amusement
hollow back-stairways
Uninviting and weaving
With hardly a light
To throw shadows in corners
and stepways on steroids
Beneath my feet heaving
Threatening to speak of my comings and going.

I have a place
With wild secret nonsense
Where I speak in rhyme
And fumble my letters
And whisper and writhe and foretell of one coming
With hooves and umbrellas
And sex in a bottle
Incantations and whistles
My fingertips drumming.

I have a place
With dread secret passages
I'll juggle your dreams
If you dare to listen
To my travels and playtime
My wailing and rapping
My haunting and laughter
Mad mourningful singing
I creep along
Never boring of darkness
And conjure up company
For no special reason.

4 comments:

  1. This is just some silly stuff-- a break from the heaviness that usually fills me. For more serious poetry, for my best, click on "death of a 6 yr old". And by the way, people LOVE COMMENTS!

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  2. I love this wild secret place of nonsense that makes sense to me. I too have secret passages that link rooms either empty but for shadow and echo, or filled with light, animated people and creatures and the scent of fun.

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  3. WOW! Nicew Lily! We should leave maps to these secret places.

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